you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.